庭 — courtyard, garden, yard

にわ庭 courtyard

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes home

U+5EAD Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #816 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #634 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

courtyard
garden
yard

word

にわ niwa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

庭(にわ) niwa garden 中(なか) 庭(にわ) nakaniwa courtyard

てい tei On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

家(か) 庭(てい) katei home 庭(てい) 園(えん) teien garden

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

广 slanting roof

てい廷 courts

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#53 广 dotted cliff